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/dev/null is an ACID compliant database

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526 points swills | 1 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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charcircuit ◴[23 Oct 25 23:20 UTC] No.45688714[source]▶
/dev/null is not a database. By this logic is a hard disk a database, is a CD a database. No. They are storage mediums. You could store a database on them, but they themselves are not a database.

Considering there is no way to read back data written to /dev/null it will not be useful for storing database data.

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jonathrg ◴[24 Oct 25 00:11 UTC] No.45689165[source]▶
You can store any data as long as it doesn't contain any ones
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1. saltcured ◴[24 Oct 25 02:10 UTC] No.45689971[source]▶
And, you don't depend on it remembering how many zeros you wrote last.